“Mean and cruel” — that’s how U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto described Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s budget bill after passage in the Senate. She gathered Nevada health care leaders and workers July 2 to talk about how the state would be affected.

President Donald Trump's tax cut bill would enact steep cuts to the nation's safety-net health insurance program for low income families.

The Senate passed President Trump's sweeping spending package, including work requirements for some Medicaid recipients.